Car Preperation
TimmySpec Rear Control Arms
I did mention a lot has happened since the end of the 2011 event.
Getting ready to go on One Lap 2011, we found ourselves scrambling and coming up empty handed for a set of rear adjustable control arms for the Evo X. When we really couldn’t find any, Tim went to work to make some. With an array of bushings, bolts, and swaged tubing Tim put together some pretty decent control arms for a one week project to get us on the road.
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19th Annual DSM-Evo Shootout
In 1999 I made my first trek to the DSM shootout. I traveled down with Chris Wirth, in my 1996 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS-T and managed to come home with a trophy in the FWD class. I went for 5 consecutive years, meeting some great friends every year and putting some faces to the names of the people whom I had talked with online.
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Operation Phoenix Recovery Update 1
It is humbling the number of people who have heard about the car and offered to help out. I have also under estimated how visible the car has become outside of our own little club.
When we hauled the car to Magnus last week I had the car on a trailer for two days before we left. I pulled the car around the block into the Wegman’s parking lot for a test run and had posts up in Facebook telling me the car was spotted in Penfield, on a trailer. When I came out from the hardware store I watched two cars cars divert their path in the parking lot just to drive by the car on the trailer.
Registration and Sticker Day
Every year we start One Lap with a mad dash to finish the car just before rolling out to long haul to South Bend Indiana. With Magnus Motorsports on board to build the car we were left with very little, and I mean very very little left to do. Steve and I spent Wednesday and part of Thursday finishing up the vinyl work and the wing installation. Once those were buttoned up we packed the car and head out to South Bend for registration and sticker day at the TireRack.
1Final Tunes and the Magnus blessing
I haven’t had a lot of time to write, so i have a few flashbacks to cover. After we got the car back from Magnus at the beginning of the month we found that our injectors didn’t like us very much. Rather than stick with the current injectors, we opted to order some new ones.
02012 One Lap of America
The Sights of One Lap…
